BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Newcomen.com - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.newcomen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Newcomen.com REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230405T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230405T210000 DTSTAMP:20230405T183408Z CREATED:20220801T210600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T183408Z UID:10669-1680721200-1680728400@www.newcomen.com SUMMARY:‘Women in Engineering’ by Dr. Emily Rees Koerner & Prof. Graeme Gooday DESCRIPTION:This event is both an in-person and on-line event. To reserve a spot for either option\, please visit the lecture’s Eventbrite page. \nA co-authored paper presented by Dr. Emily Rees Koerner and Professor Graeme Gooday. \nIn 2019 the Women’s Engineering Society celebrated its centenary (founded in 1919 when they held their first conference in Birmingham). The two speakers will present evidence of women’s roles in engineering during the 19th and 20th centuries\, uncovered whilst they researched historical tales of women engineers in Birmingham and the Midlands. \nThey are now working on a broader history along with the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists. URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/women-in-engineering-by-professor-graeme-goodaye/ LOCATION:BIRMINGHAM Think Tank\, Birmingham Science Museum\,\, Curzon Street\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, B4 7XG CATEGORIES:UK - Midlands Branch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.newcomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/23-04-05_WomenInEngineering_1920x1080.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - Midland Branch":MAILTO:midlands@newcomen.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230411T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230411T200000 DTSTAMP:20230406T085141Z CREATED:20230209T123647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T085141Z UID:12220-1681236000-1681243200@www.newcomen.com SUMMARY:‘The UK’s first Industrial Gas Turbine’ by Geoff Horseman DESCRIPTION:The UK’s first industrial gas turbine was developed by CA Parsons & Co beginning in the 1930s. The machine ran for the first time in 1945. All of the key elements: compressor\, turbine\, combustion chamber\, exhaust heat exchanger and control technology were developed by CA Parsons & Co Ltd independently. The unit had to use the fuel available in WWII ie pool oil and was used to investigate the viability of operation on residual fuel oil and pulverised coal. Geoff Horseman\, formerly Chief Turbine Engineer at Siemens CA Parsons Works\, will tell the story of this machine using information and photos from the original development files. \nAbout The Lecturer\nGeoff Horseman worked at Parsons for 39 years from 1980 until 2019. He joined the Steam Turbine Design Dept in 1982 rising to Head of Turbine Design in 1991 and Head of Turbine-Generator Engineering in 1994. \nParsons became part of Siemens in 1997 and was joined by Westinghouse in 1998. Reorganisation led to the majority of new generator work moving to the Westinghouse sites while the majority of steam turbine work moved to the Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr and Newcastle sites. \nIn 1997\, Geoff was appointed Chief Turbine Engineer\, Siemens Power Generation. \nOn retirement in 2019\, with Siemens permission he began to document the Parsons history so that it can be preserved in the Tyne & Wear Archive and other institutions. URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/the-uks-first-industrial-gas-turbine-by-geoff-horseman/ LOCATION:NEWCASTLE Discovery Museum\, Blandford Square\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, Tyne & Wear\, NE1 4HZ CATEGORIES:UK - North East Branch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.newcomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/23-04-11_FirstUKIndustrialGasTurbine_1920x1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230412T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230412T200000 DTSTAMP:20230411T081613Z CREATED:20220801T210805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230411T081613Z UID:10671-1681322400-1681329600@www.newcomen.com SUMMARY:'On Metrology' by Terry Quinn (CANCELLED - please read) DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, due to the uncertain nature of events in France and particularly in Paris\, our lecturer is unable to travel to give his lecture. This event has therefore been cancelled & will be rescheduled at a later date.\nThis event is both an in-person and on-line event. To reserve a spot for either option\, please visit the lecture’s Eventbrite page. \nTerry Quinn graduated in physics just one year before the great revolution in metrology began with the redefinition of the Metre in terms of the wavelength of light. From antiquity\, practical dimensional measurement standards had all been based upon material artifacts and measurement of time on the rotation of the Earth. All of that changed in 2018 when the base units of the SI were redefined in terms of fixed values of a set of fundamental and atomic constants. In this lecture\, Quinn will explain how practical measurement standards can be obtained from such definitions. \nThe above image shows “Toise du Perou” (the official unit of length in France just before the metric system). This is one of two Toises that were used to decide between two theories for the shape of the Earth – one by Newton in which the earth was flattened at the Poles and one supported in France by Cassini\, who maintained that it is pointed like an upright rugby football. One Toise was taken to Lapland (the Toise du Nord) and one (this one) to Perou where the length on the ground of one degree of latitude was measured. The expeditions lasted some years in the 1740s and\, of course\, the results supported Newton’s theory. (Photo TJQ at the Paris Observatory 2017). \nAbout The Lecturer\nTerry Quinn graduated in Physics from Southampton University in 1959\, moving to Oxford for his D. Phil in what was then the Metallurgy Department. The thesis supervisor was Professor William Hume-Rothery FRS. \nIn 1962\, Quinn joined the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington where he worked on high-temperature measurement and standards. In 1967/68\, Quinn spent a year at the then National Bureau of Standards in Washington\, moving to the BIPM\, Paris in 1977 as Deputy Director\, becoming Director in 1988. He was Lady Margaret Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory\, Cambridge in 1984/84 and retired from the BIPM in 2003. Quinn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002. URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/on-metrology-by-terry-quinn-postponed-from-jan-2022/ LOCATION:LONDON Alan Baxter Gallery\, 75 Cowcross St\, Clerkenwell\, London\, EC1M 6EL CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - London Branch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.newcomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/23-04-12_Metrology_TerryQuinn_ToiseDuPerou_1920x1080.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - London Branch":MAILTO:office@newcomen.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230420T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230420T200000 DTSTAMP:20230411T082454Z CREATED:20230322T103310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230411T082454Z UID:12400-1682013600-1682020800@www.newcomen.com SUMMARY:'Newcomen Engine Buildings in 18thC Europe' by David Hardwick DESCRIPTION:This event is both an in-person and on-line event. To reserve a spot for either option\, please visit the lecture’s Eventbrite page. \nA Comparative Architectural History – This talk is adapted from one that the lecturer David Hardwick was asked to present to the conference on Early Steam Engines in Central European Mining on 8th October 2022\, held in Banská Štiavnica\, Slovakia. It builds on his previous research into the engine houses in Brislington (nr Bristol\, England)\, Auchenharvie (Ayrshire\, Scotland) and Dannemora (Sweden)\, to consider the evidence available\, both physical and documentary\, regarding what buildings elsewhere in Europe may have looked like. \nAbout The Lecturer\nDavid is a self employed chartered building specialist in historic buildings and particularly industrial archaeology.  For more than a decade\, he has been researching the nature of the construction of the buildings that housed the first engines following the invention of the atmospheric engine by Thomas Newcomen. URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/newcomen-engine-buildings-in-18thc-europe-by-david-hardwick/ LOCATION:BRISTOL BAWA\, 589 Southmead Rd\, Filton\, Bristol\, BS34 7RG CATEGORIES:UK - Western Branch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.newcomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/23-04-20_NewcomenEngineeringBuildings18C_1920x1080.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - Western Branch":MAILTO:western@newcomen.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230424T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230424T203000 DTSTAMP:20230421T091117Z CREATED:20220801T211037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T091117Z UID:10673-1682361000-1682368200@www.newcomen.com SUMMARY:'Lady Charlotte Guest and Dowlais Ironworks' by Victoria Owens DESCRIPTION:Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there is no need to register\nJoining us ONLINE- please use this Zoom Link which will be live from about 6:00 pm \nDr Victoria Owens examines how a pioneering businesswoman came to head the world’s largest ironworks. \nWhen impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833\, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age\, over their nineteen-year long marriage\, husband and wife enjoyed great happiness and much adventure. There would be ten children and while John built up an immense commercial empire\, Charlotte championed Welsh culture. \nCrucially\, she taught herself John’s business from the inside. Over the years\, she made the keenest observation of iron production\, the fluctuations of the trade and the engineering innovations that touched upon its developments. When John died in 1852\, she was therefore uniquely well-placed to succeed him as head of the works – a remarkable position for a Victorian woman. Not only did she endeavour to introduce reforms\, but also – rather to her dismay – had to weather a potentially destructive strike. But success came at a price and with her star in the ascendant\, Lady Charlotte suddenly chose to abandon all\, leave Wales and marry her sons’ tutor! \nThis presentation (& Victoria’s book on the subject) traces the ardent\, creative years of her first marriage\, explores her determination – widowed – to preserve John’s legacy\, and observes her growing devotion to her second husband\, the scholarly Charles Schreiber. \nWe would like to congratulate Victoria on winning the 2021 Wales Book of the Year Non-fiction Award for her book Lady Charlotte Guest – the exceptional life of a female industrialist and copies will be available at the meeting. \nAbout The Lecturer\nA member of the Newcomen Society\, Dr Victoria Owens has worked in local government and the book trade. Now an independent scholar\, her book Lady Charlotte Guest – the exceptional life of a female industrialist was shortlisted for the 2021 Wales Book of the Year and won the non-fiction award. Her other publications include James Brindley and the Duke of Bridgewater: Canal Visionaries (Amberley Publishing 2015) and Aqueducts and Viaducts of Britain (Amberley Publishing 2019). She is currently working on a life of L.T.C Tom Rolt\, to be published in 2024. URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/lady-charlotte-guest-and-dowlais-ironworks-by-victoria-owens/ LOCATION:SHEFFIELD Kelham Island Museum\, Alma Street\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S3 8RG CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - South Yorkshire Branch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.newcomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/LadyCharlotteGuest_900x506.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - South Yorkshire Branch":MAILTO:meetings.syorks@newcomen.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR